eburnean

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  1. Relating to or made of ivory.
  2. [capitalized] In the classification of late geological deposits bearing human relics, a subdivision of the Paleolithic section in France. It includes the oldest deposits containing well-finished implements associated with carved bone and ivory. It was the period of the mammoth, went back into glacial time, and was followed by the Tarandean or reindeer epoch.

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  • As she showed eburnean limbs —  Poems
  • Bronze and eburnean. —  Poems
 

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  1. = French éburnéen, from Latin eburneus, of ivory: see eburneous.
 

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